A Smoobu alternative with the cleaning built in
Smoobu is a channel manager and PMS for hosts from single apartments to large portfolios, with a booking website, guest messaging and per-unit pricing — this isn’t a takedown. The difference is what happens after the booking: in VacayOps the checkout creates the clean, your cleaner works a photo checklist, and everyone gets a login. The Property Owner plan is $19/property/month with unlimited users and no booking fee on your direct site.
14-day free trial — no charge until it ends. $19/property/month — no contract, no setup fee.
Smoobu vs VacayOps Property Owner
Every Smoobu cell is from smoobu.com. Prices are in each company’s own currency and are not converted.
| Capability | VacayOps | Smoobu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19/property/month (Property Owner, USD) | From €28/month for one unit; each additional unit from €9.60/month — billed in eur |
| Booking fee | None on direct or Airbnb bookings; 0.5% on Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia payments — our payment partner’s fee, at cost | 0.9% per booking on the Professional Flex plan; the other plans show 0% |
| Users | Unlimited — cleaners and vendors included | Unlimited read-only accounts; accounts with edit rights cost extra per month |
| Channel connections | Direct connections to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals, and Hopper | Airbnb, Booking.com and more |
| Your own booking website | Built in, no booking fee; AI edits arrive as proposals you approve | |
| Guest messaging | Unified inbox with AI-drafted replies | |
| Cleaning tasks | A checkout creates the clean; your cleaner works a photo checklist | Logins for cleaning staff with a calendar view and booking alerts; cleaning projects and checklists through integrations such as Turno and Properly |
| Form builder & AI form creation | Drag-and-drop builder; AI drafts a form from a description or rebuilds one from a PDF, Word file or photo of the paper form | not marketed on smoobu.com’s pricing page |
| Form answers as automation triggers | A submitted form or a single answer (a “Fail”) starts a workflow — create the maintenance task, notify the manager | not marketed on smoobu.com’s pricing page |
| Nightly pricing | Rate rules included | Smoobu Dynamic Pricing — two free months on Teams Pro+ |
| Phone apps | Android field app; iPhone in the browser for now | iOS & Android app |
| Year-end tax pack (Schedule E lines, per property) | not listed on the pricing page |
Smoobu column from smoobu.com (pricing, channel manager, account access and its housekeeping guide) as of 25 October 2026. Smoobu is a trademark of its owner; VacayOps is not affiliated with Smoobu. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.
Sources — read on the vendor’s own pages, 25 October 2026
Where VacayOps differs
The clean is part of the booking
A checkout creates the clean and a same-day check-in flags it as a turnover. Your cleaner works the job on their phone and finishes a photo checklist, so you see the property is ready from anywhere — no separate cleaning app.
Everyone gets a login, free
Unlimited users on every plan: a co-host, a second cleaner, the handyman. Nobody is billed as an extra account.
No direct booking fee on any plan
Keep 100% of your direct bookings. No booking fee, no revenue share — card processing is billed by your own processor at its rates.
Where Smoobu goes further
Smoobu is a good fit for plenty of hosts, and some of it goes beyond what VacayOps does.
- A lower price for each unit after the first: from €28/month for one unit; each additional unit from €9.60/month.
- An iOS & Android app on its plans — the VacayOps iPhone app is not out yet.
- 14-day free trial, no card needed — VacayOps has a free trial too.
Switching from Smoobu
Switching is built in — a self-guided Migration Center, with a specialist reviewing your move. Migration is the reason managers stay on software they have outgrown. The Migration Center is in your account from day one: it reads your old system’s exports, shows exactly what will change before anything is saved, runs both systems side by side so your guests notice nothing, checks every booking against your old system, and switches over on the day you pick.
- Smoobu uses the general export guide. There is no live connection to your old system: the Migration Center works from the files you export, so nothing changes there until you switch over.
- Past and upcoming reservations with guest details and the money as your export itemizes it, properties with their access codes and housekeeping details, owners, team and vendors, opening balances, old owner statements as files and CRM contacts.
- Guest message history, saved cards, rate calendars, Vrbo listing content and review text stay behind — reviews stay on your channel listings.
Leaving Smoobu: common questions
- Which VacayOps plan is the closest fit for a Smoobu host?
- If you own the rentals you run, the Property Owner plan at $19/property/month: the PMS, channels, your own booking website, the guest inbox, cleaning tasks and a year-end tax pack, without the management-company tools. If you manage properties for other owners, the Full Platform at $29/property/month adds owner statements, trust accounting, a phone system and a sales CRM.
- Is Smoobu cheaper than VacayOps?
- It depends on how many units you run. Smoobu’s pricing FAQ starts at €28 a month for one unit, with each additional unit from €9.60, billed in EUR. The VacayOps Property Owner plan is $19/property/month in US dollars for every property — lower for the first unit, higher for each one after it. What changes the sum is what you pay for besides: Smoobu charges for accounts with edit rights and points to partners such as Turno for cleaning projects; VacayOps includes unlimited users and the cleaning tasks.
- Does VacayOps charge a booking fee?
- Not on your direct site, on any plan. Keep 100% of your direct bookings. No booking fee, no revenue share — card processing is billed by your own processor at its rates. Airbnb payouts are untouched. Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia payments are collected through our payment partner, whose fee (currently 0.5%) is passed through at cost, with no markup. Smoobu charges 0.9% per booking on its Professional Flex plan; its other plans show 0%.
- Can my cleaner use VacayOps on their phone?
- Yes. Add them as a user — unlimited users, no extra charge — and they see the jobs you assign, work the checklist and upload photos. The VacayOps app for field teams is on Google Play for Android. The iPhone app is coming soon; until then, crews and managers use the browser and add it to the home screen.
- How do I move from Smoobu to VacayOps?
- Switching is built in — a self-guided Migration Center, with a specialist reviewing your move. Smoobu uses the Migration Center’s general export guide: it reads your exported reservations and properties, shows what will change before anything is saved and checks every booking. Guest message history, saved cards, rate calendars, Vrbo listing content and review text stay behind — reviews stay on your channel listings.
Bookings, guests and the clean, in one place.
One login. One bill. Unlimited users. Priced per property. No seat fees, no setup fee, no contract, and no booking fee on your direct site. 14-day free trial — no charge until it ends.